Trudi Crouwers
Introduction
Dr. Paola Pedrelli (PhD in Clinical Psychology) is director of Dual Diagnosis Studies at the Depression Clinical Research Program (Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston). She practices as a clinical psychologist at the same hospital and teaches Clinical Psychology at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on etiology (disease causation), assessment, and treatment of comorbid affective disorders and alcohol misuse.
We know that some students coming to Europe engage in heavy drinking while abroad, exposing themselves to all the risks involved. The European laws that allow them to drink before the age of 21 seem like an open invitation to some of them to drink too much…